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Curtiss 1912 Headless Pusher Replica

Northwest Airlines Chief Pilot Walter Bullock learned to fly in 1916 in a Curtiss Pusher. Nearing retirement in the mid-1940s, Bullock wanted to fly a Pusher once again but when he couldn't find an original airplane to restore, he built this replica (in 1947) which has reenacted a number of historic flights. In 1959 Peter M. Bowers repeated Glenn Curtiss' 1910 Hudson River flight (Albany-to-New York City, ~150 miles). WAAAM Director of Restorations Tom Murphy has reenacted two historic flights, both first made in the Northwest in 1912. In 1992 he reprised Walter Edwards' airmail flight from Oregon to Washington and in 1995 he reprised Silas Christofferson's Multnomah Hotel Flight, taking off from a platform built on the eight-story hotel's roof. The original and reenactment flights all landed at the Vancouver Barracks, now Pearson Field.